Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandmother was setting the table. But the lieutenant noticed that the fire had only just been lit. Kicking it apart, he found that the hearthstone moved. Underneath was a shaft leading down to a room in which eight men were hiding. Among them: much-wanted Argyrious Karademas, Greek arms smuggler, trained saboteur and prison breaker...
...episode among NATO partners matches the savage anti-Greek riots that swept Izmir and Istanbul the night of Sept. 6, 1955. Until then the mutual quarrel over Cyprus had been furiously propagandistic but not violent. That night, ostensibly aroused by reports of an explo sion in Salonika that damaged the birthplace of Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk, the rioters swarmed through the streets wrecking and smashing anything Greek. In one night of Turkish terror, 300 people were injured, 4,000 stores looted, 78 Greek Orthodox churches gutted...
...loaders and supported by cavalry and authentic 19th century cannon, stood by for four days as the October 1955 rains pelted them. Cost of the washout: $3,000. Back in their Manhattan workshop, the planners decided they could get big scope by closing down to the suggestion of epic Greek tragedy in the plight of Lee at Seminary Ridge, a majestic central figure brought down by circumstances beyond his control...
...ancient Psyche myth into strange new shapes. The action takes place in the barbaric Kingdom of Glome, somewhere north of civilized ancient Greece. The central figures are the beauteous Princess Psyche, a symbol of sacred love, and her ugly sister Orual, a symbol of profane love. By contrast, their Greek slave tutor, Lysias the Fox, is a symbol of the rational, worldly skeptic of all ages. The Fox tells the princesses that their country's religion, which revolves around a shapeless stone earth-mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies. But Ungit's priests bully...
...room knew a crossbuck from an Eliot House chambermaid. Only Associate Dean Robert Blake Watson had had direct contact with the game (as a scrub on the 1936 squad which won 3, lost four). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics and medieval history.) There were also some assorted deans, a professor of hygiene, and a director of financial aid. But like all Monday-morning quarterbacks, the committeemen wound up by blaming everything on the white-thatched, mild-mannered coach Jordan, they recommended to the Harvard Corporation last week...